United States v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.3d 585 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Ben Zvi (2001), Marshall Huffman v. Saul Holdings Limited Partnership (2001)
26 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Staples v. United States · Dennis v. Dennis · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Woodcock v. Chemical Bank · Landscape Properties, Inc. v. Vogel
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a dramatic change in controlling legal authority; (2) significant new evidence that was not earlier obtainable through due diligence but has since come to light; or (3) that blatant error from the prior sentencing decision would result in serious injustice if uncorrected.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“specifically instructed the district court to resentence defendant within the guideline range of 27-33 months and did not grant the court the opportunity to consider mitigating factors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]lthough resentencing on remand is typically de novo, this does not hold true where an appellate court has specifically limited a district court's discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.